Henrique Santos
Director, Semantic Applications Research
City of Troy, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHenrique Santos is a director and senior scientist with 11 years of professional experience building semantic applications and applied research systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He progressed from software engineer to research scientist and now leads Semantic Applications Research, blending deep academic training (PhD and MSc in Computer Science) with hands-on engineering. Based in Troy, New York, he has a long-standing background in enterprise IT and consulting from roles in Brazil that inform his pragmatic approach to deploying research prototypes into production. Known for bridging theory and practice, he focuses on turning semantic technologies into usable tools for researchers and organizations, often navigating cross-cultural and cross-institutional collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Universidade de FortalezaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Ceará
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (75)
pii10
nano10
github-pages10
skos10
responsive10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
data-acquisition10
triplestore9
data-management9
shacl9
linked-data9
dbpedia9
graph9
sparql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tetherless-world/mcs-ontology
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:21 PRs, 85 pushes, 18 branches in 3 months
tetherless-world/adapt
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 64 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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